Saw this interesting video a mate recommended me watching. It documents a presentation by Jeff Han a mathetical scientist that has reinvented the way we communicate with computers. Essentially Jeff has worked on one outcome on his concept, a computer without an interface. Jef also looked at the way we interact data and also how data can function more than just 'sitting in a file'.
The invention is a rectangular screen with what i can see as a faint grid, images are displayed beneath the screen, and working just like a touch screen, you can not only select the data but determine how it funcions.
One of the first demonstrations is the lava lamp. At first the lava lamp is static, then by applying pressure to the screen you can heat up the pad and breathe life to the lava. You can also determine how the lava moves.
Another demonstration was something more special. Jeff shows a screen with photographs scattered about, almost like an untidy photographers workspace. Then by using his fingers he can drag, overlap and resize the photographs using his fingers. Also by applying his little finger and index finger, he can zoom into the picture with ease and speed.
A fascinating invention that could revoutionalise the communication between man and machine, a highly efective piece which has so much scope.
click the link
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1&
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